The second International Symposium was originally planned on the theme of new realities for global security with advice from the Department of International Politics Aberystwyth University, the oldest of its kind in the world. However, it was decided in 2015 and agreed by the Society's Council to refocus on global health and to work in partnership with Public Health Wales and the InterAction Council (IAC) on a themed meeting entitled New Realities for Global Health Security.

For the 2016 HLEG and the IAC’s 33rd Annual meeting, Professor John Wyn Owen and Professor Colin McInnes, Department of International Politics Aberystwyth University prepared a draft Pathfinder on New Realities for Global Health Security for the InterAction Council.